page_title: Just a Girl
section_title: Live performances
hierarchical_section_title: Just a Girl / Live performances
caption_attribution_description: English: &#160;Gwen Stefani performing "Just a Girl" during the This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
context_page_description: "Just a Girl" is a song by American band No Doubt for their third studio album, Tragic Kingdom. Released as the record's lead single in the United States on September 21, 1995, it was written by Gwen Stefani and Tom Dumont, and produced by Matthew Wilder. It has also made an appearance on their 2003 greatest hits album, The Singles 1992–2003. Lyrically, "Just a Girl" is a new wave song written about Stefani's perspective of life as a woman and her struggles with having strict parents. "Just a Girl" was the first song Stefani wrote without the assistance of her brother Eric.
  "Just a Girl" received positive reviews from music critics, who commended the feminist lyrics and Stefani's vocals. The single is typically regarded as being the breakthrough that popularized No Doubt. "Just a Girl" became No Doubt's first charting single in the United States, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and entering the Alternative Songs, Hot Rock Songs, and Mainstream Top 40 component charts. It also reached the top ten in several other countries, including Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, and the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: In 1995, No Doubt played the first-ever Warped Tour and performed "Just a Girl" to begin the promotion of Tragic Kingdom. They opened a concert at the Virgin Megastore in Los Angeles with the song in October 1995. Immediately before this performance of "Just a Girl", Stefani promised her mother that she would not curse while singing; however, Stefani did and as a consequence, her mother refused to speak to her for a week. In January 1996, No Doubt performed "Just a Girl" on the American TV show Late Night with Conan O'Brien, marking their first appearance on late night television. Later that year on March 28, they  sang "Just a Girl" on Late Show with David Letterman. After the performance, the band was delighted to learn that David Letterman had been seen "tapping his foot" against the ground as they performed.
  "Just a Girl" was performed as the seventh song during their 1995–97 Tragic Kingdom World Tour. According to Rolling Stone's Chris Heath, the "greatest moment" on the concert appears during this performance: during the refrain of the song, Stefani asked the men in the crowd to sing along; after they sing "I'm just a girl" to her amusement, she then asks for the females in the audience to join her. Stefani questions: "What about all the sweet, cute, little girls? Sweet, little, tiny, sweet girls. You want to sing?" before screaming "Fuck you, I'm a girl!". The performance of the song at the July 1, 1997 show in Anaheim, at The Arrowhead Pond, was recorded and released in No Doubt's first live album, Live in the Tragic Kingdom (1997). For the 2002 Rock Steady Tour, "Just a Girl" was performed during the concert's middle segment, following singing "Simple Kind of Life" and preceding "Hey Baby". Stefani engaged the audience with questions like "Wanna know something?" and then answered in the form of a song lyric: "I'm just a girl because that's all that you'll let me be!" The New York Times's Kelefa Sanneh found this as Stefani either "addressing her fans [and] joking about the demands of stardom" or "addressing a lover [and] lodging a bitter complaint about a relationship gone awry". The performance of "Just a Girl" at the November 22–23 and 29, 2002 shows in Long Beach at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center was recorded and featured on the group's second live album, Rock Steady Live (2003).
  The song was performed as the opening song of No Doubt and Blink-182's Summer Tour 2004. The tour occurred specifically at amphitheaters around the United States. Prior to the performance of "Just a Girl", Queen's "We Will Rock You" was played over the PA system to welcome No Doubt. Stefani then joined the crowd from the stage wearing oversized green, plaid pants and a brown sweatshirt that emphasized her midriff. During the second iHeartRadio Music Festival in 2012, American singer Pink joined No Doubt on stage for a duetted version of "Just a Girl". The staff at Entertainment Tonight was impressed by the performance, calling it a "rad moment".
  For Stefani's solo This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour of 2016, "Just a Girl" was performed as part of the concert's encore, alongside performances of "Truth" (2016) and "The Sweet Escape" (2006). Stefani changed outfits, prior to returning to the stage, and wore a white corset that displaying the words "Blond Rebel" for the performance. In April 2018, Stefani announced a concert residency titled Just a Girl that would occur at the Planet Hollywood Resort Las Vegas. During the show, the singer performs a number including "Just a Girl" during the concert's encore. Stefani wears a "sparkly cowgirl getup" which serves as a nod to her boyfriend Blake Shelton.
caption: Stefani performing "Just a Girl" during the This Is What the Truth Feels Like Tour (2016).
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